Title 12, Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs

(a) (1) (A) The Board of Corrections may promulgate rules to allow the proper classification of inmates to be released to the county sheriffs of approved jail facilities or chiefs of police or other authorized law enforcement officers of city-operated approved jail facilities or …

(a) The Board of Corrections may contract with any private individual, corporation, partnership, or association whereby inmates would assemble, process, fabricate, or repair parts or components for goods or products being manufactured or produced by the private individual or enti…

(a) Goods produced in whole or in part by inmates of the Division of Correction or the Division of Community Correction participating in private sector prison industry enhancement programs may be transported and sold in the same manner as goods produced by free persons, provided …

(a) An inmate of the Department of Correction or Department of Community Correction who is earning at least minimum wage and is employed under §§ 12-30-501 and 12-30-502 shall have his or her wages set aside in a separate wage fund by the warden or supervisor of the facility in w…

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Correctional or detention facility” means:(A) A local or state correctional facility or detention facility that has the power to detain or restrain a person under the laws of the state, including a city jail, county jail, or facility operated by t…

(a) A correctional or detention facility shall not place an inmate or detainee verified to be pregnant, in labor, or in post-partum recovery in restraints unless:(1) The correctional or detention facility makes a reasonable and individualized determination that the inmate or deta…

(a) A correctional or detention facility shall establish a policy for providing:(1) Necessary prenatal vitamins and nutrition for pregnant inmates and detainees;(2) A necessary number of hygiene products for female inmates and detainees;(3) A necessary number of undergarments for…

(a) As used in this section, “restrictive housing” means a housing placement that requires an inmate or detainee to be confined in a cell for at least twenty-two (22) hours per day. (b) An inmate or detainee in a correctional or detention facility shall not be placed in restricti…

(a) A correctional or detention facility operated or administered by the Department of Corrections shall establish a policy to offer a female inmate or detainee who is:(1) Fifty (50) years of age or older but younger than seventy-five (75) years of age a mammogram screening every…

(a) An inmate committed by any court in Arkansas to a county jail or city jail in the State of Arkansas may be entitled to a reduction, to be known as “meritorious good time”, from his or her maximum term of his or her sentence to be served in the county jail or city jail. (b) (1…

(a) There is established a classification committee consisting of such persons as the county sheriff or chief of police may designate. (b) The committee shall meet as often as necessary to classify the inmates of the county jail or city jail into one (1) of three (3) classes acco…

(a) All meritorious good time shall be forfeited by the inmate in the event of escape, and all or part of the accrued meritorious good time may be taken away by the county sheriff or chief of police for infraction of rules. (b) However, in the event of escape, the county sheriff …

Under rules prescribed by the county sheriff or chief of police, and approved by the county quorum court or city legislative body, the county sheriff or chief of police may authorize emergency furloughs, under reasonable conditions, for inmates for occasions such as serious illne…

(a) (1) (A) Commissions derived from inmate telephone services, if the inmate telephone service is provided by the county or regional detention facility, and profits earned from inmate commissary services provided in the various county and regional detention facilities in the sta…

(a) If an inmate in a local correctional facility receives medical services that meet criteria for Medicaid coverage, the local correctional facility may apply for Medicaid coverage under this section. (b) (1) The inmate may designate a representative for the purposes of filing a…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Healthcare professional” means an individual or entity that is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the laws of this state to administer health care in the ordinary course of the practice of his or her profession or as a function of an …

(1) A local correctional facility is encouraged to:(1) Adopt independently, or in collaboration with other local correctional facilities or nongovernmental law enforcement entities, a screening tool designed to screen inmates or other detainees for a behavioral health impairment,…

Unless prohibited by federal law, a person who is in the custody of a local or regional correctional facility for an offense committed in the state who receives any federal relief or stimulus funds from the United States Government is required to first use the federal relief or s…

(a) (1) The Association of Arkansas Counties shall compile and submit an annual report to the Legislative Council outlining all costs incurred, excluding construction costs, by local government units that house state inmates sentenced to the Division of Correction and the Divisio…

(a) (1) Within fourteen (14) days of the initial incarceration of a person, the administrator of the local correctional facility with custody of the person, the designee of the administrator of the local correctional facility with custody of the person, or the county veteran serv…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Changing room” means the same as defined under § 22-3-2201;(2) (A) “Correctional facility” means a local correctional facility that has the power to detain or restrain a person under the laws of the state, including without limitation facilities o…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Law” means a statute of a state, a written opinion of a court of record, a municipal ordinance, a county quorum court ordinance, or a rule authorized by and lawfully adopted pursuant to a statute; and(2) “Municipality” means an incorporated cit…

(a) A county in this state and a municipality in that county, both located on the state line, may contract with an adjoining county and any municipality in that county located on the other side of the state line for the joint construction, financing, operation, and management of …

(a) The contract must provide that the county sheriffs of the two (2) counties are jointly responsible for operation of any jail, lockup, or other detention facility in the justice center and the custody, care, and treatment of persons in custody in the facility or must provide f…

(a) The governing body of a municipality or county contracting, as provided by §§ 12-41-202 and 12-41-203, may finance its share of the construction, financing, operation, or management of the justice center by any means that it could finance the type of facilities in the center …

(a) A circuit court or district court having jurisdiction in the county or municipality in which a part of the justice center is located may maintain offices and courtrooms and hold proceedings at the center. (b) (1) A court of this state may not hold proceedings in the part of t…

(a) (1) Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, the law of both states regarding rights, duties, liabilities, privileges, and immunities arising from conduct applies to conduct in any part of the justice center.(2) If, however, it is impossible for a person to conform hi…

(a) A person who is in the justice center in the custody of a peace officer or center personnel under Arkansas law:(1) Is constructively present in Arkansas while that person is in custody in the part of the center in the other state;(2) May be prosecuted for an offense against A…

(a) Arkansas agrees that a person who is in the justice center in the custody of a peace officer or center personnel under the law of the other state may be:(1) Prosecuted for an offense against the law of the other state without extradition of that person; and(2) Personally serv…

(a) (1) A person who is summoned to appear in the justice center under Arkansas law:(A) Is constructively present in Arkansas while that person is appearing under the summons in the part of the center in the other state;(B) Without extradition, may be arrested in any part of the …

(a) If the other state enacts legislation as provided in § 12-41-202, a peace officer of Arkansas may:(1) Arrest a person under Arkansas law in the part of the center in the other state for an offense against Arkansas law if that peace officer would be authorized to make that arr…

(a) (1) The county courts of the several counties in this state shall purchase a farm or tract of land within the boundaries of the county and provide for the erection on the farm or tract of land a house of correction.(2) However, the farm or tract of land shall not be purchased…

(a) When any farm or tract of land has been purchased by the county court as provided in § 12-41-301(a), the county court shall cause to be let out to the lowest bidder the contract for building and erecting on the tract of land a house of correction. (b) The house of correction …

All contracts, appropriations, and disbursements of money concerning the purchase of the land or farm provided for in § 12-41-301 and the erection of the house of correction shall be made according to and be governed by the laws concerning public county contracts, appropriations,…

(a) The county court shall have general supervisory control over the farm and house of correction and shall take means to correct any mismanagement of the facilities. (b) With the advice of the superintendent, the county court shall prescribe, from time to time, such rules for th…

(a) The county court of any county in which any house of correction shall be erected shall appoint a discreet person, who shall be a qualified elector of this state and who shall be known as the superintendent of the house of correction. (b) The superintendent shall have charge o…

(a) When any house of correction has been erected as provided for in § 12-41-302, all persons who shall be convicted of petit larceny or any other crime cognizable before justices of the peace, and sentenced to imprisonment, shall be sentenced to confinement in the house of corre…

(a) All persons sentenced to confinement in the house of correction shall be compelled to labor on the farm or lands on which the house of correction shall be situated in such manner as is provided for in subsection (c) of this section and for the term of their imprisonment. (b) …

(a) The product of all labor of the prisoners confined in the house of correction shall be applied, under the direction of the county courts, to the payment of the expenses of the persons so confined and such other expenses as may be necessarily incurred in improving and keeping …

(a) The city council shall have power to erect, establish, and maintain a city jail, which shall be in the keeping and under the control of the chief of police, under such rules and regulations as the city council may prescribe. (b) The city council shall provide one (1) or more …

It shall be the duty of the keeper of the city jail, watch, and station houses to provide all persons confined therein for any offense with necessary food during their confinement, and the cost thereof, not exceeding thirty cents (30¢) per day to each person, shall be taxed as co…

(a) In all cities of the first class there shall be elected by the city council each year immediately after the organization thereof, after each annual election, one (1) police matron, who shall be at least twenty-five (25) years of age and a woman of good character and deportmen…

(a) The governing bodies in the various municipalities in this state may establish a daily fee to be charged counties for keeping prisoners of counties in the municipal jail. (b) The fee shall be based upon the reasonable expenses which the municipality incurs in keeping such pri…

(a) (1) The chief of police, or his or her designee, may determine if a person convicted and sentenced to the city jail shall serve his or her sentence on electronic monitoring or on weekends if the determination does not conflict with any court orders.(2) If the chief of police,…

The county sheriff of each county in this state shall have the custody, rule, and charge of the jail within his or her county and all prisoners committed in his or her county, and he or she may appoint a jailer for whose conduct he or she shall be responsible.

(a) County sheriffs and other keepers or administrators of jails within the State of Arkansas are responsible for managing the populations and operations of their respective facilities in compliance with the laws and the Arkansas Constitution and within the requirements of the Un…